Miss Charlotte's Mission and Vision:
The Foundation for Our Future
After the recent announcement of Foxcroft’s $65 million Building for Our Future capital campaign, we sat down with Head of School Cathy McGehee to talk about what that means for the School and our School community. Read more below about this extraordinary effort. Q: As part of recent Reunion activities, the School announced a $65 million capital campaign, Building for Our Future, focused on the renovation of Schoolhouse and the Music Building and the construction of a STEAM wing and performing arts center. What impact will this have on our campus? On our girls? On our faculty? A: Over the past decade, we have constructed or renovated almost every other building on campus, as called for in the 2003 Campus Master Plan. Now the time has come to address the buildings at the core of our daily work with students. Schoolhouse has stood at the center of campus as the place where our
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academic program comes to life for more than 70 years. During this time, research about best teaching practices, brain and cognitive studies, and technology tools to support our students’ learning have advanced; however, except for a few minor renovations, Schoolhouse and FoxHound Auditorium have remained mostly unchanged. The classroom configuration no longer provides the physical space needed to support the type of teaching and learning of today and for the future. What will this project mean for our students and faculty? Building a new STEAM wing and performing arts center and renovating Schoolhouse will provide the space to support student-centered
learning, which is active, project-based, collaborative, and interdisciplinary. These buildings will showcase the excellence of our academic and performing arts programs and the scholarship and creativity of our teachers and students. Schoolhouse also lacks the mechanical infrastructure to support our needs. For example, we do not have environmentally sustainable heating and cooling systems, and we don’t have an elevator making accessibility difficult. The interior is quite dark, and one wing on the second floor doesn’t have windows. While our top priority for the project is educational, we can’t ignore the real needs of the building itself.
